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United Utilities showed off how it protects beauty spots while accommodating visitors as land managers and ecologists from 10 UK water companies visited two of its Lake District reservoirs.
The firm hosted a trip around Thirlemere and Haweswater to share its practice of sustainable catchment management, as part of the water industry’s annual Conservation, Access and Recreation Conference.
The water company owns 40,000 acres in Cumbria, as well as sites in the Forest of Bowland and the Peak District.
Northern catchment manager Paul Phillips said: “People have always been able to visit these places, but as an industry, especially here in the North West, we’re getting better and better at helping people get the most out of their trip while protecting the environment and, most importantly for us, the quality of our water.”
United Utilities’s sustainable catchment management programme (Scamp) was one of the earliest such scheme in the industry when it started in 2005.
It involves working with groups such as the RSPB, Natural England and rivers trusts to prevent and reverse deterioration of the water environment. Many of those groups were represented at the conference.
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